RE: GTK+ Quartz Project Started
RE: GTK+ Quartz Project Started
- Subject: RE: GTK+ Quartz Project Started
- From: Patrick Griffiths <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 08:36:23 -0400
I think the idea is to make porting existing GTK apps easier and to ensure
they perform well. Obviously, if one was creating a new OS X app, one would
use Cocoa.
Patrick
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-----Original Message-----
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From: Paul Bayley [mailto:email@hidden]
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Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2001 6:25 AM
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To: Finlay Dobbie; email@hidden
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Subject: Re: GTK+ Quartz Project Started
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At 7:34 AM +0100 9/11/01, Finlay Dobbie wrote:
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>For any of those of you interested in helping, please join
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the GTK-Quartz-Devel mailing list at
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http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gtk-quartz-devel
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>The main project page is at
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http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/gtk-quartz
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>Thanks,
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Considering GTK doesn't have interface abstraction like Cocoa
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does, I don't consider any more a viable multiplatform API
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than Carbon.
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I hope that if you go ahead with this that there is an option
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to have GTK apps appear conspicuously different than other
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mac apps. I can currently do this with Qt and Swing which I
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make look like CDE and Metal respectively due to the fact
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that not one Qt or Swing app behaves like a mac app.
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GTK has always been used as a utility toolkit for X11
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programmers so I don't see the advantage of porting GTK to
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Quartz when we already have rootless X11, but I guess I can't
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stop you from porting it.
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